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UK: Britain’s immigration system in chaos, MPs’ report reveals - IT failures cost £1bn, 50,000 asylum seekers are missing and new backlog is building up, according to public accounts committee

30 October 2014

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"Evidence of waste and poor management within Britain’s immigration system has been laid bare by a parliamentary report which reveals that failed IT systems are to cost up to £1bn while officials cannot find 50,000 rejected asylum seekers."

See the full article: Britain’s immigration system in chaos, MPs’ report reveals - IT failures cost £1bn, 50,000 asylum seekers are missing and new backlog is building up, according to public accounts committee (Guardian, link)

And see report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee: Reforming the UK border and immigration system (pdf) and from Home Office: Statistics: Asylum decision speed measures (link)

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